4200 Fourth Avenue;
Raymond F. Almirall;
1905|

The 200-foot tower of St. Michael’s was the second tallest building in Brooklyn after the Williamsburgh Savings Bank until the early 21^st century, when high-rise residential towers began to sprout up across the borough. The tower’s egg-shaped dome recalls the famous basilica of Sacré–Cœur in Paris, a French connection made through its École des Beaux Arts-trained architect. Almirall also designed the Emigrant Industrial Savings Bank Building at 51 Chamber Street in Manhattan, as well as most of the campus of Seaview Hospital in Staten Island.

4302 Fourth Avenue;
Emile Gruwe;
1886|

Due to its growing population in the 1880s, Brooklyn expanded its police force and built precincts borough-wide. Sunset Park’s station was renumbered several times, but eventually became the 68th City, and thus the boroughs’ police forces, consolidated in 1898. The station house and stable were designed in the Romanesque Revival style with Venetian and Norman Revival ornament, including brick molded cornices, arched openings, brownstone moldings and stone bandcourses with carved dogs’ faces and Byzantine leafwork. The station house has a crenellated corner tower and a projecting pavilion on Fourth Avenue. The buildings, connected by a one-story brick passage, have been vacant since 1970 and are in a severe state of disrepair. The station house was designated a New York City Individual Landmark in 1983.

4201 Fourth Avenue;
Mortimer Dickerson Metcalfe;
1931|

This Classical Revival courthouse was built to house the magistrates’ and municipal courts. Its architect gained prestige for assisting with the design of Grand Central Terminal roughly 20 years before this commission. The courthouse features grand porticos on both the 42nd and 43rd Street façades with Ionic columns, quoins, eagle capitals, limestone details and moldings. The courthouse was designed a New York City Individual Landmark in 2001.